Inside the Ultimate Country Home Where Minimalism Meets Elegance (House Tour)

Bordered by the Southern Alps on one side and the sea on the other, Hepburn’s Road House by Warren and Mahoney and Detail by Davinia Sutton is a country home that responds to the New Zealand landscape. Using a range of trees, orchards, a tennis court and walls, the architects slowly reveal the country home, creating an air of suspense as nothing is immediately available upon arrival. With its symmetrical layout, the home begins with a long gallery at the front entrance with bedrooms on either side and a large living space that is placed behind.
To deal with a tough site and the New Zealand climate, Warren and Mahoney employed materials that directly respond to these challenges while also providing durability. Such materials used include concrete, timber weatherboard, profiled metal roof and cladding, timber shutters and flooring, and stone. Designed to be an antidote to the townhouse, the employed materials of the country home also respond to the difference between the types of homes and, in turn, the difference between city and country living. As such, the approach towards relaxation, level of formality and materials used allows the country home to become a place that the owners can find shelter and freedom.
Used to break down the transition between inside and outside, moving timber shutters are placed over the operable glass doors and walls to help create versatile uses for the spaces. Additionally, the themes of longevity, proportions, symmetry, and the juxtaposition between the interiors and the exterior façade, helped to lead the design choices by Detail by Davinia Sutton. Embracing New Zealand design throughout the build, with an honest and tailored approach, the interior designer offers a sincere tactic delivered with a contained palette. Seen through the bedrooms, the calming palette is a union of travertine stone alongside honed and soft finishes that add a wholeness to the private spaces.
Addressing the needs and requirements of the home’s landscape, the interior design incorporates elements that answer these needs directly. Experienced within the laundry, the room has been turned into a mud room that allows the owners to freshen up before entering the home. Furthermore, extra storage has been introduced with appliances such as a wine fridge and cool and dry fridges, which offer a prolonged ability to store produce. Finished with Fisher & Paykel appliances, the country home integrates a refined ease of living for the owners and responds to their love for entertaining. Deepening the connection and celebration of landscape and entertainment, Warren and Mahoney’s work seamlessly unites with Detail by Davinia Sutton’s interior design so that the owners can easily transition from inside to outside living.
00:00 - Introduction to the Ultimate Country Home
01:08 - A Symmetrical Home
01:27 - Using Durable Materials
01:52 - An Anecdote to a Town House
02:11 - The transition Between Inside and Outside
02:29 - The Theme of Longevity
02:55 - An Honest and Tailored Approach to Detailing
04:01 - Meeting the Needs of Entertaining
04:18 - Proud Moments
04:35 - Favourite Aspects of the Home
04:45 - Elegant Spaces of Good Proportions
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Photography by Sam Hartnett.
Architecture by Warren and Mahoney.
Interior Design by Jane Dewe and Detail by Davinia Sutton.
Build by Bradford Construction.
Landscape by Warren and Mahoney with Jeremy Cooke.
Engineering by Lewis Bradford.
Joinery Design by Detail by Davinia Sutton.
Joinery Manufacture by Modern Age Joinery.
Lighting Design by Jane Purdue.
Appliances by Fisher & Paykel.
Videography by Cadre.
The Local Project acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand. We recognise the importance of Indigenous peoples in the identity of our respective countries and continuing connections to Country and community. We pay our respect to Elders, past and present and extend that respect to all Indigenous people of these lands.
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The Theme of Longevity is apropriated, This house makes you forget your problems and makes you live purely longevity😎

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The transition between inside and out is great! Moving shutters, moving glass etc... so good!

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I just recently discovered this channel but i love the "watch while high" factor in these videos. Truly relaxing and beautiful filming.

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You need to be high to listen to these snobby twats ramble on about three boxes like it some great artistic feat haha

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Well put 💸 literally one of my top 5 channels. No one does it like local project… 🫶

[@littlenest]

Theres so much beauty in the very simple yet clever symmetrical placement of the 3 rectangular forms that make the house ♥️

[@ronnymcdonald2543]

Yeah we builders call them boxes lol

[@michaelnicola5210]

Utter serenity, sublime. Timeless and could be in the English countryside and still work. Beautiful

[@darien33]

Me gusta mucho lo sobria y práctica que es la casa. No me gusta tanto la decoración, pero eso es muy personal. Saludos

[@kayelyward8714]

Upon my first sight of the home I was struck by how familiar it felt to me perhaps because the home has features that i have dreamed of and that i want in a home. The symmetry at the front entrance with the front walkway dividing that front area. The window view from the kitchen. The coverings over the windows which softens the harshness of bright light which shines through. Everything about the home exudes tasteful comfortability. To say I loved the home on sight is an understatement because it is everything I have ever dreamed of when I think of home. It's the type of home that makes me believe that dreams can come true.

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Another amazing home in a long list of amazing homes well captured by The Local Project.

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Like the modern interpretation of the barn style, especially in the rural context. But the interior really let’s the house down. Looks like the inside of a Marriott hotel

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I think it's the right moment to try to clarify one thing. Minimalism can "meet elegance" but to a limited extent. "Minimalism" within a huge space and surrounded by a huge "yard" - that is not minimalism. Minimalism in the maximum space, with very expensive technique and very expensive interior elements, with very expensive maintenance of all that and probably very expensive project... in my opinion, this is by no means minimalism. All this is very beautiful, comfortable and in a way on the threshold of futuristic. I believe that it is a great pleasure to live or stay in such an arranged space. But in my opinion it's not minimalism... It's another style that probably has a more adequate name...

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Love the surroundings and the interior but not the biggest fan of these modern shed like looking homes, think they'll go out of style quick

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If they just have hired a nice landscape designer 😕

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OMG architects talk a load of crap lol

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How? How do you create a project like this. We are in the process of buying a tiny plot of land and wanting to build a 80m2 with a half floor above. I would love! to make something sustainable, collecting rain and taking advantage of the sun for heating, top isolating and building a home that someone will be thrilled to move in to 100 years from now, but how do you get started with a project like this. We live in Copenhagen, and all we seem to be able to find, are companies that mass produce homes (well) but don’t give this way of thinking any attention.